Hello everyone, welcome. My name is Nina via and I'm your instructor. For those of you who enrolled in my first course who watched the first course called How to create a fashion collection and launch your own brand. You know that I was an instructor at film fidm, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, where I've taught many classes like sketching and draping in pattern making, collection, development and many more. If you haven't watched my first course, I encourage you to do so because it'll give you a really good idea of the overall picture and the process of creating a collection and launching your own brand. This second course is about pattern making, and some draping.

And I say some draping because many times a pattern is developed by first draping on a dress form which I'll show in a minute, and then taking that drape and drafting a pattern from it, pattern making and draping go hand in hand. And in fact, you will see me going back and forth between pattern making and draping. Because the first concept and question that we need to address is how do you take a two dimensional piece of paper a pattern and create a three dimensional shape and design from it. In this course, you will learn basic principles of pattern making such as dark manipulation, adding fullness, you will learn techniques such as pivoting and slashing and spreading. And you will learn how a bunch of new words and terminology such as slopers and blocks and darts and pleats and tucks and sharing princess seam style lines, yoke similans, etc.

So we'll go over all the tools necessary to Make patterns. And in fact, speaking of tools, let's start with the tools needed to draft a pattern or patterns. So, we'll start with scissors. And there's two kinds of scissors that you should get. I'm going to be very professional about this and if you were in the industry or looking forward to going into the industry, you will need two kinds of scissors. This one is used to cut paper.

When I say paper, there's two kinds of paper there's Manila paper, which is not really cardboard, but it's so stuck paper. And then there's also dotted paper, so more of a lightweight that paper. So if you were cutting paper, you would use the scissors. Otherwise, just a regular normal pair of scissors for fabric and in this course we'll use a fabric called muslin. to drape patterns, you will need a pencil very sharp pencil and a ruler. An 18 inch clear this bends you can see it's flexible two inch by 18 inch clear ruler.

You will need pins regular things not safety pins. This is straight pins, okay? You will need A French curve. I don't know if you can see it I'm going to hold it against a dark background. This is a French curve. Okay It has a certain shape to it see that you will need a hip curve has a certain shape.

This is a hipster. You will need a tracing wheel tracing wheel. There's different variations but they're all pretty much the same. So we'll return to little teeth at the end. You will need it all a Ws A w l Eight not sure this is not sure. And it makes, you can hear the clicking it makes not choose scotch tape, good old scotch tape and Stabler.

And along with stapler is a staple remover to remove staples, okay. If you want to purchase a really great textbook I highly recommend this this textbook right here. It's used in the industry and it's really an excellent textbook for patent making. So these are the most important tools necessary this few more things, but these are the essential tools needed to draft patents. Okay. In the next class, we'll start with principles and techniques on patent drafting, and we'll get going.

So I'll see you next class. Thanks